When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Another 1400 people are injured when a commando of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam crash a lorry containing about 440 pounds of high explosives through the main gate. The suicide bombers were Raju, Subramanium Vigneswaram aka Kittu and Sivasamy Dharmendra aka Raju.

Comedian, actor and juggler W. C. Fields, originally William Claude Dukenfield is born in Darby, Pennsylvania, United States.

(-)110 years ago

Friday 29th of January 1904

Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Egbert was the first man to be hanged at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

(+)109 years ago

Sunday 29th of January 1905

Artist Barnett Newman known for Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? is born in New York City, New York, United States.

(+)109 years ago

Sunday 29th of January 1905

Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess is born in Oxford, Indiana, United States.

(x)108 years ago

Monday 29th of January 1906

32-year-old Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l'Ogresse de la Goutte d'Or is brought to trial for the strangling of two children, but found not guilty in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Starkweather later accused his girlfriend Caril Fugate of performing a coup-de-grace after his shotgun jammed. They were arrested when their stolen car stalled and Starkweather got hit by shattered glass from the windshield as pursuing officers chased him. Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin said "He thought he was bleeding to death. That's why he stopped. That's the kind of yellow son of a bitch he is."

Unidentified serial killer Zodiac sends an 'Exorcist'-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, United States.

It was the Zodiac's last authenticated piece of correspondence.

(x)35 years ago

Monday 29th of January 1979

17-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer known for Not Liking Mondays opens fire on a school across he street in Grover Cleveland Elementary School, 6365 Lake Atlin Avenue, San Carlos, San Diego, California, United States.

She killed principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar and wounded 9 children. After firing thirty rounds of ammunition, Spencer barricaded herself inside her home for several hours before surrendering. During the siege she had a telephone conversation with a journalist who reported that she had said "I don't like Mondays".

(-)34 years ago

Tuesday 29th of January 1980

Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Great Schnozzola dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

(-)29 years ago

Tuesday 29th of January 1985

Kidnapper Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 46 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Engelbrecht and his 29-year-old wife Helma were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment the day before for torturing and sexually abusing 16-year-old Silvia Hantke in their basement from 10 February 1982 until 23 May 1983.

(x)26 years ago

Friday 29th of January 1988

25-year-old Serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 40 years in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Erskine has since been found suffering chronic schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder and now held at the maximum security Broadmoor Hospital.

(-)13 years ago

Monday 29th of January 2001

Murderer Alexander Caruthers aka Gus is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

(-)12 years ago

Tuesday 29th of January 2002

Multiple murderer Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Anderson's last meal before the execution was two grilled cheese sandwiches, one pint of cottage cheese, a hominy/corn mixture, one slice of peach pie, one pint of chocolate chip ice cream, and radishes.

(-)11 years ago

Wednesday 29th of January 2003

Double murderer Richard Eugene Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Dinkins was sentenced to death for the murders of 46-year-old Katherine Thompson and 32-year-old Shelly Cutler in Thompson's Massage Therapy Clinic in Beaumont, Texas on 12 September 1990. His last meal was for liver and onions, two double meat hamburgers with bacon and mayonnaise, two orders of French fries, vanilla ice cream, two Dr. Peppers, salad with ranch dressing, and M&M's.

10 years ago The Eyes had it

Thursday 29th of January 2004

A late night dinner of green curry chicken at Kansama Restaurant on Serangoon Road in Singapore, Singapore.

(-)9 years ago

Saturday 29th of January 2005

Guitarist Eric Ronald Griffiths known from The Quarrymen dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudor dies of diabetes at the age of 56 in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

His last words were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"

(+)159 years ago

Sunday 28th of January 1855

Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs is born in Rochester, New York, United States.

(x)127 years ago

Friday 28th of January 1887

26-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor marries Myrta Z. Belknap while he was still married to Clara Lovering in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.